PARIS: The US-based son of Iran’s ousted shah urged Iranian government workers and security forces on Sunday to join the swelling protest movement in the Islamic republic.
“Employees of state institutions, as well as members of the armed and security forces, have a choice: stand with the people and become allies of the nation, or choose complicity with the murderers of the people,” Reza Pahlavi posted on social media after a rights group said Iranian authorities were carrying out “mass killing” to suppress the unrest.
Pahlavi, who has emerged as an opposition figurehead, also called for replacing the flags outside of Iranian embassies with the pre-Islamic revolution one.